Michael Rogers, 25, of 8324 S. Nashville Ave., Burbank, was arrested Saturday after being stopped in the 12500 block of South Harlem Avenue. He was charged with driving under the influence, speeding and unlawful possession of cannabis, police said.

MONTE ZONCOLAN Italy (Reuters) - Nairo Quintana of Colombia was poised to win the Giro d'Italia at the first attempt after holding off his rivals in the penultimate stage, a 167-km mountain ride won by Australian Michael Rogers on Saturday. Tinkoff-Saxo rider Rogers, who was last month cleared of wrongdoing after a positive test for clenbuterol last year, was the strongest rider involved in the 20th stage's early breakaway, beating Italians Franco Pellizotti and Francesco...

An off-duty Cook County sheriff's deputy was killed early Sunday when he lost control of his car and struck an elevated train support on Chicago's South Side. Jeffrey Lyles, 37, was driving east in the 1000 block of 63rd Street at about 3:45 a.m. when his 1992 Oldsmobile hit the concrete "L" column, according to Sgt. Michael Rogers, of the Major Accidents Investigation Section. Lyles was pronounced dead at Cook County Hospital.

(Reuters) - Australian rider Michael Rogers probably ate contaminated meat in China before testing positive for the banned substance clenbuterol last October, cycling's governing body said on Wednesday in a ruling that cleared him to ride again. The International Cycling Union (UCI) said in a statement that the Saxo-Tinkoff rider had been stripped of his results from the Japan Cup that month but would face no further sanction. Rogers, a three-times trial world champion...

Michael Rogers, who told police he had repeatedly locked his 7-year-old daughter in a metal dog cage because she had "psychiatric problems," pleaded guilty Friday to felony child abuse in a case that has garnered national attention because of the heinousness of the allegations. Rogers' wife, Angeline, 28, who also was charged with felony child abuse in connection with the couple's treatment of their five children, refused to accept the terms of a plea agreement that state prosecutors offered and is...

Every day after school, the 7-year-old Brillion girl was locked in a small metal dog cage and kept there until morning. Some nights, if her parents remembered, she was let out for dinner or to use the bathroom, she and her brothers said Thursday in taped testimony at a sentencing hearing for their parents. Michael and Angeline Rogers beat her and her brothers with belts or pieces of wood or ordered them to stand in a corner for hours if they misbehaved, the children...

When police found a 7-year-old girl from Brillion, Wis., locked in a metal dog crate like an animal, the girl's mother, Angeline Rogers told officers that she knew people were going to "see us as horrible monsters." But the girl, Rogers said, was big trouble. She has psychiatric problems, she "does basically anything she wants" and she is "very angry at people," Rogers told police. That's why, according to the criminal complaint filed against her, Rogers did nothing when her husband,...

When Valparaiso coach Homer Drew talks about elite teams, you listen. "This is the fifth [straight] year we've played the No. 1 team in the nation," Drew said, shaking his head, "and this one probably is the most dominant." North Carolina (11-0) pounded the boards for 16 offensive rebounds and harassed the young Crusaders (3-7) into 25 turnovers Saturday at the United Center in an 85-63 victory for a team widely projected as a Final Four lock. The Tar Heels...

Parents convicted of keeping their daughter in a basement dog cage were allowed last month to visit four other children for the first time since their arrest in November. Michael and Angeline Rogers were arrested after an 11-year-old walked barefoot in snow to the Brillion police station, saying his 7-year-old sister was kept to a cage. The Rogerses face sentencing Thursday and Friday. Angeline Rogers, 28, pleaded guilty to three counts of failing to prevent mental cruelty to the girl...

A North Side man who was crossing Addison Street while trying to hail a taxi died of injuries he suffered late Friday when he was struck by a truck that left the scene, police said. David Stone, 26, of the 2500 block of North Burling Street was pronounced dead at Illinois Masonic Medical Center shortly after midnight, a hospital spokeswoman said. Chicago Police Sgt. Michael Rogers said Stone was struck about 11:30 p.m. by a Chevy pickup while crossing the street in the 1500 block of...